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William Everett Waters was born in Winthrop, Me. His father, Jabez Mathews (B. A. , Colby, 1843), was a descendant of James Waters who left St. Buttolph, Aldgate, London, in 1630, to settle in Salem, Massachussets; his mother, Martha Ellen Webb, traced her lineage to Myles Standish, John and Priscilla Alden, and George Soule, of the Mayflower group.
Waters attended Woodward High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Yale University, where he received the degree of B. A. in 1878. In 1885-86 he engaged in research in classical philology at the University of Berlin under Adolf Kirchoff, Johannes Vahlen, Oldenburg, Albrecht Weber, and Johannes Schmidt, and in 1887 received the degree of Ph. D. at Yale.
He continued with graduate work at Yale for two years, holding the Clark and the Larned fellowships. After teaching Latin and Greek at Hughes High School in Cincinnati (1880 - 83), he returned to Yale as tutor in classics. He returned to Hughes High School (1887 - 90), taught Greek at summer sessions of the Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts (1888 - 90), conducting correspondence courses in Greek under its auspices (1888 - 95), and served as professor of Greek and comparative philology at the University of Cincinnati (1890 - 94). After a visit to Greece (1893 - 94) he accepted the presidency of Wells College, Aurora, N. Y. , which he held for six years. In 1900 he joined the group of prominent educators who founded the college entrance examination board and served (1901 - 02) as assistant secretary. He became associate professor of Greek at New York University in 1901, and from 1902 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1923 he was professor of Greek there. He made frequent addresses under the free lecture system instituted by the New York board of education, taught Latin at Morris High School, and English, rhetoric, and composition at the Harlem Evening High School, and was director of a vacation school (1903). After his retirement he was instrumental in raising as a memorial to his predecessor, Dr. Henry Martyn Baird, an endowment to guarantee to the university permanent membership in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He had been elected to the advisory council of this institution in 1904 and remained a member until his death. Waters was primarily a teacher. Enthusiastic, heedless of the expenditure of time and energy, and responsive always to the interest of his pupils, he was at his best in the classroom. The shyness which he manifested in personal contacts disappeared entirely when he was confronted at one and the same time with a student, a Greek text, and a blackboard. His enthusiasm for literature and philosophy was infectious. He was a very active member of the West End Presbyterian Church, serving as an elder from 1902 until his death, as superintendent of the Sunday School (1902 - 05), and as frequent leader of the men's Bible class. He acted as secretary of the class of 1878 at Yale for ten years (1878 - 88). He took his own life after a year of illness.
He was co-author with William R. Harper of An Inductive Greek Method (1888). In 1902 he edited the Cena Trimalchionis of Petronius Arbiter and published Town Life in Ancient Italy, a translation of Ludwig Friedlender's Stadtewesen in Italien im Ersten Jahrhundert. In his latter years he was engaged on a translation of Dio of Prusa for the Loeb Classical Library. He also contributed articles to the Transactions of the American Philological Association, the Pedagogical Journal, the Classical Weekly, and the New York Evening Post.
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He was a member of numerous learned societies.
On June 28, 1888, he married Alma Filia Oyler, daughter of George Washington and Carrie (Pruden) Oyler.
